Living through the COVID-19 pandemic has given young people a deeper understanding of the problems disease outbreaks can cause around the world. But how do people in other countries cope with these outbreaks, and what can we do to help? Readers find the answers to these and many other questions as they find essential facts about disease outbreaks and learn from examples in the recent past as well as current events. Helpful sidebars provide age-appropriate ways readers can become more active in combating this global concern, and fact boxes and photographs create a deeply engaging exercise in global citizenship.